Jos 13:1, The bounds of the land not yet conquered; Jos 13:8, The inheritance of the two tribes and half; Jos 13:14, The Lord and his sacrifices are the inheritance of Levi; Jos 13:15, The bounds of the inheritance of Reuben; Jos 13:22, Balaam slain; Jos 13:24, The bounds of the inheritance of Gad; Jos 13:29, and of the half tribe of Manasseh.

Aphek: This is probably the Aphek spoken of in Kg1 20:26. Kg2 13:18, as the capital of the kings of Syria; and the same as is mentioned by Sozomen, Eusebius, and Theophanes, as situated near the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim), between Heliopolis and Byblos, and celebrated for the infamous temple of Venus the Aphacite. The village Afka, situated in the bottom of a valley, and hour and three quarters from Akoura, and three hours' distance from Lake Liemoun, is supposed to occupy its site. Burckhardt, however, could not hear of any remains of antiquity in it neighbourhood. Jos 19:30; Sa1 4:1

Giblites: Probably the inhabitants of the country, around Gebal (Eze 27:9), or Byblos, as the LXX render, a city of Phoenicia, situated on the Mediterranean, between Sidon and Tripoli, on the north of the river Adonis. It is now called Gibyle, of Djebail, situated about a day's journey south of Tripoli. Its walls are about a mile in circumference, with square towers about every forty yards' distance. Anciently it must have been a place of no mean extent and of considerable beauty, from the ruins still visible. Kg1 5:18 *marg. Psa 83:7; Eze 27:9

And Kirjathaim: This city, according to Eusebius, was situated ten miles west of Medeba. Num 32:37, Num 32:38, Sibman, Called Shibmah, Num 32:38, and celebrated for its vines Jer 48:32. Isa 16:8, Isa 16:9; on which last place, Jerome says, there were scarcely 500 paces between it and Heshbon.

At Jos 13:14, as well as here, notice is taken, that to the tribe of Levi, "Moses gave no inheritance," for so God had appointed. Num 18:20. If they had been appointed to a lot entire by themselves, Moses would have served them first, not because it was his own tribe, but because it was God's, but they must be provided for in another manner; their habitation must be scattered in all the tribes, and their maintenance brought out of all the tribes, and God himself was the portion both of their inheritance and of their cup.